** Vaccinium erythrocarpum – Southern Mountain Cranberry

Southern mountain cranberry, Vaccinium erythrocarpum – also commonly known as bearberry, arando, and dingleberry – is a type of cranberry native to the southeastern United States.

Vaccinium erythrocarpum is a deciduous shrub.

* Plants For A Future database: Vaccinium erythrocarpum

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Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.

* Vaccinium oxycoccos or Oxycoccus palustris ( Common Cranberry or Northern Cranberry ) is widespread throughout the cool temperate northern hemisphere, including northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America.

* Vaccinium microcarpum or Oxycoccus microcarpus ( Small Cranberry ) occurs in northern North America, northern Europe and northern Asia, and differs from V. oxycoccos in the leaves being more triangular, and the flower stems hairless.

* Vaccinium macrocarpon or Oxycoccus macrocarpus ( Large cranberry, American Cranberry, Bearberry ) native to northern North America across Canada, and eastern United States, south to North Carolina at high altitudes ).

Vaccinium macrocarpon ( also called Large cranberry, American Cranberry and Bearberry ) is a cranberry of the subgenus Oxycoccus and genus Vaccinium.

The Vaccinium vitis-idaea | Mountain Cranberry thrives on Mount Monadnock

* Heath family ( Ericaceae )-Arctic Bell Heather ( Cassiope tetragonal ), Black Bearberry ( Arctostaphylos alpina ), Bog Bilberry ( Vaccinium uliginosum ), Labrador tea ( Rhododendron subarcticum ), Bog-rosemary ( Andromeda polifolia ), Crowberry ( Empetrum nigrum ), Lapland Rose-Bay ( Rhododendron lapponicum ), Large-flowered Wintergreen ( Pyrola grandiflora ), Mountain cranberry ( Vaccinium vitis-idaea )

Vegetation in the upland ( on hill slopes and terraces ) which constitute 90 % of southern drier areas of the park consist of forbs, such as Arctic Heather ( Cassiope tetragona ), Mountain Avens ( Dryas integrifolia ), Arctic Poppy ( Papaver radicatum ) and Mountain Sorrel ( Oxyria digyna ), grasses, such as Polar Grass ( Arctagrostis latifolia ), Northern Foxtail ( Alopecurus alpinus ), Bluegrass ( Poa arctica ) and Northern Wood Rush ( Luzula confusa ) and shrubs, such as Arctic Willow ( Salix arctica ) and Northern Bilberry ( Vaccinium uliginosum ).

Cranberry | Vaccinium oxycoccos, the common cranberry, one kind of cranberry

** Vaccinium macrocarpon – American Cranberry

** Vaccinium microcarpum – Small Cranberry

** Vaccinium oxycoccos – Common Cranberry

* Vaccinium macrocarpon-Large Cranberry / American Cranberry

Vaccinium vitis-idaea ( lingonberry or cowberry ) is a short evergreen shrub in the heath family that bears edible sour fruit, native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to North America.

Vaccinium virgatum ( commonly known as either rabbit-eye blueberry or southern black blueberry ) is a species of blueberry native to the Southeastern United States, from North Carolina south to Florida and west to Texas.

There are two regional varieties or subspecies of Vaccinium vitis-idaea, one in Eurasia and one in North America, differing in leaf size:

They are closely related to North American wild and cultivated blueberries and huckleberries in the genus Vaccinium.

Lingonberries are known as mountain cranberries or partridge berries in North America from Alaska to Labrador and have the botanical name of Vaccinium vitis-idaea.

A second group includes most of Orthaea and Notopora, at least some of Gaylussacia ( huckleberry ), and a number of species from Vaccinium, such as Vaccinium crassifolium.

There are at least twenty-five other common names of Vaccinium vitis-idaea worldwide.

They have an especially high variety of trees and allow more room of light-loving species such as silver birch, rowan, sycamore, willow and dwarf bushes such as the blueberry ( Vaccinium myrtillus ).

The metabolism and photosynthetic parameters of Vaccinium can also slightly alter in winter-warming experiments

The ground vegetation may also have a rich proliferation of low bushes such as cowberry ( Vaccinium vitis-idaea ).

The local flora also includes several species of Vaccinium, including the eponymous Cannock Chase Berry ( Vaccinium × intermedium Ruthe ).

In winter, they mainly eat fir and douglas-fir needles, occasionally also hemlock and pine needles ; in summer, other green plants ( Pteridium, Salix ), berries ( Gaultheria, Mahonia, Rubus, Vaccinium ), and insects ( particularly ants, beetles, grasshoppers ) are more important.

* Vaccinium myrtillus, a fruit also called Bilberry

Some uplands are also characterized as pitch pine heaths, dominated by pitch pines with an understory of blueberries ( Vaccinium spp.

The most common small tree and shrub species found in association with chinkapin oak include flowering dogwood ( Cornus ), sassafras ( Sassafras albidum ), sourwood ( Oxydendron arboreum ), eastern hophornbeam ( Ostrya virginiana ), Vaccinium spp., Viburnum spp., hawthorns ( Crataegus spp.

For example in Maryland, eastern towhee territories along a power line right-of-way corresponded with shrubby areas containing species such as Allegheny blackberry ( Rubus allegheniensis ) and blueberry ( Vaccinium spp .).

In a power line right-of-way in Pennsylvania, the 6 eastern towhee nests observed occurred in Allegheny blackberry, witch-hazel ( Hamamelis virginiana ), blueberry ( Vaccinium spp.

Cranberries are related to bilberries, blueberries, and huckleberries, all in Vaccinium subgenus Vaccinium.

The traditional English name for Vaccinium oxycoccos, fenberry, originated from plants found growing in fen ( marsh ) lands.

He notes that Vaccinium macrocarpon ( American cranberry ) was cultivated by James Gordon in 1760.

Common fruits that are sometimes classified as epigynous berries include bananas, coffee, members of the genus Vaccinium ( e. g., cranberries and blueberries ), and members of the family Cucurbitaceae ( e. g., cucumbers, melons and squash ).

Vaccinium () is a genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the plant Family Ericaceae.

Vaccinium species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species – see list of Lepidoptera that feed on Vaccinium.

A number of the Asian species are more closely related to Agapetes than to other Vaccinium species.

Other parts of Vaccinium form other groups, sometimes together with species of other genera.

; Subgenus Vaccinium: All the other species, with thicker, upright woody shoots and bell-shaped flowers.

** Vaccinium fuscatum – Black Highbush Blueberry ; syn.

** Vaccinium pallidum – Dryland Blueberry ( images ); syn.

** Vaccinium virgatum – Rabbiteye Blueberry ; syn.

Vaccinium vitis-idaea is most commonly known in English as lingonberry or cowberry.